US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Sept. 15 for "Anticipatory track switching microactuator track switch to enable track profile interpolation and control" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,295, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Anticipatory track switching microactuator track switch to enable track profile interpolation and control" was invented by Kenneth Arthur Haapala (Buffalo, Minn.), Reed David Hanson (Chaska, Minn.), Salman Al Saif (Chaska, Minn.), Quiang Bi (Singapore) and Chan Fan Lau (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Positioning a transducer over a magnetic recording medium for sequential track seeking operations includes performing a data transfer operation on a current track. During the data transfer operation, a next track is identified for the transduce...